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I am having trouble with Mageia 2 usb permissions.

Using Mageia 1, I could solve the problem by adding:

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SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666", GROUP="plugdev"
to /etc/undev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules

This does not work in Mageia 2. I have tried adding:

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SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666",OWNER="john",GROUP="users"

This does not make the garmin usb readable. Running qlandkartegt as root allows access to the GPS.

What's the difference with Mageia 2, and what is the cure??

Does your user belong to the usb group?

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[root@localhost john]# groups john
john : john

How would I know?

As you queried, or from

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id username

output. You can change it from userdrake (or in MCC -> System -> Manage users on system, select your user -> Edit -> groups tab and check usb group, then logout and login again)

Thank you doktor5000.
I did that, but still get: Failed to open USB device: Permission denied

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$ id john
uid=500(john) gid=500(john) groups=500(john),43(usb),497(usbmux)

I did not have this problem with Mageia 1 or Mandriva before that.

Well, from where did you actually get the file /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules as this isn't provided by any Mageia package?
Also please show the entries for your device as they are currently in that file. For that, please use code-tags: ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/rpm/rpm/extra ... e_tags.ogv

I created /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules as suggested at: http://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html

I have found another site with additional info: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USB_ ... _GNU/Linux

and modified my /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules to:
ATTRS{idVendor}=="091e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"

which now enables me to download data from my GPS using Mageia 2

Note: Mageia 1 worked with:
SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666", GROUP="plugdev"

Thank you doktor5000 for your help

Great you found out johng!!!

Will you please be so king marking the topic as [SOLVED]?
Thanks ahead.